October surprise, anyone?: U.S. Capture of bin Laden Close

[gatorboy]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=3&u=/ap/20040904/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_bin_laden_1

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday.

"If he has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking. He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.

Asked if concrete progress had been made during the last two months — when Pakistan has arrested dozens of terror suspects including some key al-Qaida operatives — Black said, "Yes, I would say this."
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[Doosh]

1. we are "this close" to capturing saddam

remember this?

be very afraid, osama would mean the election is over.

[soothsayer]

2. Good! The war on terra will be over, and * can go home and shut up.

And Kerry can get the country back on its feet after 4 years of blunders.

[dennis4868]

3. i swear to god.....

i remember hearing this a year and a half ago....same damn thing...but I would not put it past Bushit to hide UBL until October....

[rfranklin]

5. They just have to thaw the body...

that's been sitting in a freezer in Langley for the past two years.

[dennis4868]

8. or the WH freezer......

who knows.....

[liberal N proud]

4. I am still betting the last week before the election

At work we have a pool running $1 buys a day. I picked Oct 31! Sunday before election.
It gets all the Sunday news shows plus the cheering at the pulpit!
Everyone will be so happy and think dubya is the greatest thing since Tricky Dicky and he will win the election in a landslide.
Hows that for doomsday!

[gatorboy]

6. I can see this two ways:

They are either making up for the lack of a Osama talk during the RNC, which would mean they are just desperate....

Or they are holding off announcing his capture until near the end.

[benddem]

7. If the stories about

Osama's health are true. He is either dead or in a kushy neighborhood somewhere.

[gatorboy]

9. That was always odd.

This guy that probably need constant medical treatment, is rushing from cave to cave?